Legal restrictions on emigration forced virtually all Spanish Muslims into conversion

Evidence

Since a limitation had been placed on the export of permitted goods “by any route other than the coast of Biscay,” from which few ships sailed in those days to Egypt, in effect no one might leave with his luggage and possessions for any real destination, and so in effect virtually all Muslims would have to accept conversion. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 304

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing how Muslims perceived this legal trap versus an explicit order to convert.